Excuses

As every mother knows there comes a time when your children use every excuse in the world not to go to bed. Well right now, that time has come. Since we are potty training and I wont let them go to bed with water or drink anything else. They ask for several hugs and kisses and to be covered up mulitple times. I dont mind that.

And then soon as I get settled doing whatever it is I might have to do for the night, I hear the infamous, "MOMMY, I have to go potty!"

So I say to myself, "Do they have to really go potty? Or this a ploy to not go to bed?" And to my surprise, most nights they have to go. Tonight was no different then any other night except tonight Aidan said about 15 - 20 minutes after the last tuck in, "Mommy, I have to go poop!"

I believed him. Thus the excuses are making bedtime a lot longer. I think we are going to have to bump up the time so that they are actually sleeping when they should of gone to bed. Now I know how my mom felt when me and Jason were kids. Jason would drive my mom nuts with the excuses. I suppose it is par for the course. At least they are telling me they have to go..Steps in the right direction.